Tuesday, September 26, 2017

cheniere |At the
time of his death, Gabriel
Kron was arguably the greatest electrical scientist ever produced by
the United States.

It
appears that the availability of this
Heaviside energy component
surrounding any portion of the circuit may be the long sought
secret to Gabriel Kron's “open path” that enabled him
to produce a true negative resistor in the 1930s, as the chief
scientist for General Electric on the U.S. Navy contract for the
Network Analyzer at Stanford University.Kron was never permitted to release how he made his
negative resistor, but did state that, when placed in the Network
Analyzer, the generator could be disconnected because the
negative resistor would power the circuit.Since a negative resistor converges surrounding energy and
diverges it into the circuit, it appears that Kron's negative
resistor gathered energy from the Heaviside component of energy
flow as an “open path” flow of energy — connecting
together the local vicinities of any two separated circuit
components — that had been discarded by previous
electrodynamicists following Lorentz.Hence Kron referred to it as the
“open path.”Particularly see Gabriel Kron,
“The frustrating
search for a geometrical model of electrodynamic networks,”
circa 1962.We
quote:

“...the missing concept of
"open-paths" (the dual of "closed-paths") was discovered, in
which currents could be made to flow in branches that lie between
any set of two nodes.
(Previously — following Maxwell — engineers tied all of their
open-paths to a single datum point, the 'ground').That discovery of open-paths established a second
rectangular transformation matrix... which created 'lamellar'
currents...”“A
network with the simultaneous presence of both closed and open
paths was the answer to the author's years-long search.”

A
true negative resistor appears to have been developed by the
renowned Gabriel Kron, who was never permitted to reveal its
construction or specifically reveal its development.For an oblique statement of his negative resistor success,
see Gabriel Kron, “Numerical solution of ordinary and
partial differential equations by means of equivalent
circuits,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 16, Mar. 1945a,
p. 173.Quoting:

“When only positive and negative real numbers exist, it is customary to
replace a positive resistance by an inductance and a negative
resistance by a capacitor (since none or only a few negative
resistances exist on practical network analyzers).”

“Although
negative resistances are available for use with a network
analyzer,…”.

Here
the introductory clause states in rather certain terms that
negative resistors were available for use on the network
analyzer, and Kron slipped this one through the censors.It may be of interest that Kron was a mentor of Sweet, who
was his protégé.Sweet
worked for the same company, but not on the Network Analyzer
project.However, he almost certainlyknew the secret of Kron's “open path” discovery
and his negative resistor.

Pooh-poohing the Kron negative resistor is just sheer naïveté.
Kron was one of the greatest electrical scientists of all time,
and applied full general relativity to rotating machines,
electrical circuits and generators, etc.

Simply go check his papers in the literature. Even
today, there are few electrodynamicists really able to fully
comprehend his advanced work. And his direct quotations
from his own published technical papers in the literature leave
no doubt he had made a negative resistor. Further, other
scientists have commented on Kron's discovery of the
“open
path” connecting any two points in a circuit, and usable to
provide energy transfer at will.

The mechanism by which he did this is what Kron was never
allowed to reveal.